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Monday, 24 February 2014 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm (AEDT)

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Join us for three presentations on how three cultural institutions are documenting the memories of their communities.

Gene Tan is the Director National Library at the National Library Board [Singapore]. Gene directs the Singapore Memory Project, a whole of nation project that was announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at his National Day Rally in 2011. It aims to develop a national bank of content on Singapore through collecting, preserving, organising and promoting the use of anything that has ever been said or thought about Singapore. And, through ArtsCultureSG - another national project, Gene is also developing a national portal to have arts and culture proliferate throughout the whole of Singapore through every level of society. In his presentation, Gene will provide an overview of both projects.

Dr Lisa Murray is the Chair of the Dictionary of Sydney, an innovative not-for-profit digital public history project all about our great city. Lisa is passionate about making history accessible to wider audiences. She has been the City Historian at the Council of the City of Sydney since 2010 and leads the organisation’s history program. She recently gave a presentation at TEDxSydney – Future-Proofing our Digital Future. In her presentation, The Dictionary of Sydney – Sydney’s past, history’s future, Lisa will introduce the Dictionary of Sydney and reflect upon how digital history as a form of historical production is shaping and changing our concept of public history.

From the Wagga Wagga floods to the personal stories of refugees - State Library Curators, Sally Hone and Alan Davies, discuss a range of contemporary collecting projects which are documenting diverse communities and individuals across New South Wales through oral histories and photographs.

Venue: Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of News South Wales

Date: Monday 24 February 2014

Time: Doors open at 9:30am for a 10am start. Program concludes at 12:15pm